The Framer's Copyright

For their first several studio albums, the fab four got one penny in royalties per album. That's the kind of grotesque outcome that the framer's copyright sought to prevent. By limiting copyright newal to the author, the framers gave creators a chance to renegotiate their deals from a position of strength. To illustrate how this might have worked, i'm going to reproduce a short two act play from my book, information doesn't want to be free.